First things first: in case you didn’t realize this, I have no relationship with or interest in Turner Classic Movies other than the fact that I’m a huge fan because it’s the best programmed channel on television for films ranging from the earliest silents to the ’60s and ’70s. OK, so I do work for a company that is part of the same enormous media conglomerate that owns TCM, but I assure you that I do not have enough in the way of valuable stock or options to make the business success or failure of TCM an issue for me. And, since the entire channel is run out of Atlanta and not New York, I won’t be pursuing them for a job anytime soon. So, before you email me or post a comment on the site asking when TCM might broadcast a certain title, please know that I have no idea. The best way to find out would be to go to their website and do a little search.
Still, I highlight TCM programming because it’s a great opportunity to see great movies and learn about filmmakers and actors with whom you may otherwise be unfamiliar. 
Such is the case over the next three days. Tonight, TCM continues its monthlong celebration of Peter Lorre. Tomorrow, as I mentioned earlier in the week, from 6 AM to 4 PM (Eastern), TCM has changed it’s schedule in tribute to the late Janet Leigh. And tomorrow night at 10:15 PM, they give you another chance to see what still reigns as possibly the greatest film comedy of all time, Some Like It Hot. Finally, on Monday, TCM honors what would have been the 100th birthday of one of the greatest novelists of the 20th Century. Graham Greene (whose birthday was actually on Oct. 2) was more than just a novelist, however. He was also a brilliant film critic and occasional screenwriter. Many of his novels have been adapted for the screen, and he was even nominated for a screenwriting Oscar for 1948’s The Fallen Idol. That film was directed by the great Carol Reed with whom Greene collaborated on two other occasions, most notably the classic noir The Third Man. TCM will actually show The Third Man twice, at 8 PM and 11:15 PM (Eastern), followed each time by a new hour-long documentary about the making of the film, Shadowing the Third Man at 10 PM and 1:15 AM (Eastern).
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